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For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought seeBears the moonSignture NOTNARCOTIC. Use For Over nesaM*d%"ssoruao Thirty Years CASTORIA E~a C~fop W#aper ' SON SMMG! FOR SEEg We wish to thank our customers for the liberal patronage during the fall. We beg to say our Stock is complete in every Line, and we can save you money on any article in our Lines. We have just unloaded two cars of Buggies into our Repository, and we give the best guarantee with our goods of any dealer in the county. When iticomes to Wagons and Eand-made Harness our competitors are at a loss. Our buyer is now in the West and this week we wiRl unload a car of Mules and- Horses and can fill any order. 7 Full Line of Oliver Chilled Plows and Plow Re pairs always on hand. We only ask for your inspection of our Stock be fore you buy. To look and price, means we trade. - Wishing you all a merry Christmas, I am yours for a square deal, small profits and quick sales, D. M.BRADHAM & SON In theFight.1 The decks are cleared for action. I am now in the race r cash trade, and I have a splendid stock of everything eeded on the farm or in the household. I eordially invite an inspection of my stock of Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, Notions, Shoes, Hats, lothing, Crockery, Tin, Wooden and Hardware. GROCERIES ofall kinds and in large quantities. Come to my store, price my goods, examine the gq.ality, ad if not as cheap as the cheapest, then don't buy from me. I have made special arrangements to do a large cash trade this season, and I fully realize that I must, to do business, meet sharp competition. This I have prepared for. I wvant your trade. Yours, etc., B. A. J OH NSON . HORSES, MULES, BU66IES. WA6ONS. HARNESS. Building Material, Lime. Cement.Acme Wall Plaster, Shingles, Laths. Fire Brick. Clay. Stove Flue Drain Pipe. &c. HAY AND 6RAIN. SEED. Oats, Wheat, Rye, ar4d Barley. A carload or a single article. Come and see us, if unabe to do, write or 'phone No. 10. BOOTHARDY LIVE STOCK CO. SUMTER. S. C. BrigYour Job Printing to The Timnes. The Confederate Moam-t. The moveiaenst so long neglected has at last begun to erect a monument to the memory of the heroes who wore the grav.-soldiers whose record was the marvel of the civilized world. Clarendon now proposes to piace upon the court house square a suitable Matk of i., a. trioti.ni by having ereeed a shaft in. honor of thoe, who responded and laid down their lives up-on their couutrv's altar. .\ll contrihutions sent to THr;E . INi TIMEs . d through its columns. J. [L. Lese lue ....... ... ...... 141I0 i Loui5 L'ev ...................... 1) Ik Fred ese ... ..... .. . 10 Mrs. E. .\ppelt...... ........... 10 00 David B. Jones.. ....... ....... 10 00 D. L Green............ ........ 5 00 C. M. Maso n.................... 5 00 R. F. Ridgewav...... ..... ..... 1 00 A Timely Protcmtion. Everyone knowvs the after effects of La Grippe are oftifn more dangcrous than the disease. So often it leads to pneumonia, which a weakened heart action makes fatal. La Grippe coug-hs: that strain and weaken the system yield quickly to the healing and strengthen ing qualities-of Foley's Honey and Tar. W. E. Brown & Co. Followed Instructions. At Gloucester some time ago a manl was sentenced to one month's hard la bor for stealing a bottle of medicine that he had been asked to deliver by the doctor in the village in which he lived. Some montbs after he was brought up on a similar charge and when in the dock was asked what he had to say in his defense. "Well. your bonor.' be replied. "I was asked by the doctor to call again for another patient's medicine, and the bottle stood on the doctor's desk lab eled. *To be taken as before." He was discharged amid roars of laughter.-London Fun. Wise Old Guard. To a guard at a gate in the Broad sta.'et station. Philadelphia. there re cen- rushed an excited Individual with this query. "Have I time to say goodby to my wife, who is leaving on this New York train?" "That. sir," responded the guard. with a polite smile. -depends on how long you have been married."-St. Louis Republic. - Worth A Dollar A Drop. Fred Patchen, Manlius, N. Y., writes: -"For a long time I was affected with kidney trouble which caused an almost onstant pain in mv back and inflamma tion in my bladder. Other remedies did not even relieve me, but two fifty cent bottles of Foley's Kidney Remedy com pletely cured me and I have not had any symptoms of any kidney troubles for over two years.j' W. 1. Brown & Co. A. J. WHITE & CO.. Successors to W. E. JENKINSON CO. 0 UNDERTAKERS, We have bought the Undertaki Department of W. E. Jenkainson Co. and will keep on hand a complete line of Coffis and Caskets. We are also prepared to do Embahming. Will also carry a line of Picture Miouldings and Glass for framing pictures. U~nder Masonic Hall. A. J. WH ITE & CO., A. J. WHITE. JE., Mgr. Registration Notice. The books of registration will be open each Monday at the Clerk of Council's ofmee until the first day of April, from which time they will be open every day until the election. L. I. APPELT, Supervisor Registration. February 9th, 1910. Notice to Creditors. All persons having claims against the estate of C. L. Land, deceased. will present them duly attested, and those owing said estate will make payment to the undersigned qualified administrator of said estate. E. B. BROWN, A dministrator. Manning, S. C.. March 7th, 1910. Notice to Creditors. All persons having claims against the estate of Peter B. Mouzon. de ceased, will present them duly attest ed. and those owing said estate will make payment to the undersigned qualified e.cecutors of said estate. T. M. Mouzo,. P. B. Mouzos, JOSEPH SPROTT, Executors. Manning, S. C.. March 9th, 1910. Notice to Creditors. All persons having claims against the estate of Charles A. Ridgill. de ceased, will present them duly attest ed, and those'owing said estate will make payment to the undersigned qualified administrator of said estate T. B. MIMS, Administrator. Pinewood, S. C., Mareb 7th, 1910. AND CURETILUNOS $6/ARAWTYED WA7A4CORY OR NONEY RED7NDED. W.:O. W. Woodmen of the World. Meets on second Monday nights atl 8:30. Visiting Sovereigns invited. JOHN G. CAPERS. (or South Carolina). Ex-Coummi'ioner Interrn Rene JOSEPH I). WRIGHT. CAPERS & WRIGHT, AT ORNEYS AT LA w, W.\sHIINGTOr~N. L'. C. Telephone. M..n & Dr. King's New Life Pills The best in the world. 80akes Kidneys and Bladder Right COLOSSAL ARCTURUS The Fourth Brightest Star In All the Heavens. IN REALITY A MONSTER SUN. It Is Thought to Be at Least a Hun dred Times Larger Than Our Sun In Diameter and Is About Nine Hun dred and Fifty Million Miles Distant. Most of us are prone to think of our sun as being the largest body In the heavens. the grand high lord of all the little planets and the twinkling stars. Such is very far from being the case. Practically all of the fixed and twin kling stars art as large as. and some even larger than. our own sun. They appear small only because of their great distance. for they are just as truly suns with families of planets flying around thAn as is our central orb. There is one of these stars in par ticular that has attracted the aften tion of astronomers, not only on ac count of its great size. but also its enormous distance from our solar sys tem. This Is the star Arcturus. To have some conception of the almost in conceivable :listance that separates it from us the astronomical standard of measuring distance must be compre hended. Now. light does not come from a luminous body instantaneously to our eyes. It takes time to come. because it is a wave motion in a medium. The velocity of light as most recently determined is about 186.000 miles a second. Multiply this by the number of seconds in a year and we have a distance known in as tronomy as a light year. Therefore when a star is. say.- six trillion miles away we say it Is one light year off. which means that the light from the star takes one year to reach us It may be of some interest to know that there Is no fixed star less than ten light years away. or sixty trillion miles. This is the one known as Alpha Centauri. Most of the stars are much farther even than that. Arcturus being the farthest one measured to date. Areturus Is thought to be at least a hundred times larger tLan the sun In diameter. That would make it 10.000 times larger in surface, or the dimension that is ordinarily compared. By means of the photometer its bright ess has been determined to be G.200 times that of the sun. It is the fourth brightest star in all the heavens. Siri us. the dog star. being first In bright ness. As regards the distance from us, ;t has been found to be a little over G0 light years. or 9-0 trillion miles. This distance.- of course, cannot be onceived by mortal man, it is so stu pendous and amazing. However. one can get a slight idea of it by means of an everyday analogy. Think of the fastest express train going at the rate of 100 miles an hour toward such a star and compute the time it would take. It is found to be in round num bers exactly 120.000.000 years! Now. as we know that it has taken Its light so long to come to us and as there are a great many stars whose distance has never been measured: exactly, but which have been computed to be ap proximately several million light years away. we have absolute proof of the reat age of the world and the stellar niverse. The elements composing the sun Arc turus are, peculiarly enough, very early the same as our sun. As It is ne of the most wonderful and as ounding thin-s that a scientist can tell what a star so far away is com posed of, a small explanation of the nodus operandi would not come amiss here. It is done by means of a small instrument known as the spectroscope. hich consists of glass prisms so ar anged as to split up the light falling n them into Its constituent parts ow, every substance has the power o cause a certain color or line In the spectroscope If It Is in a luminous con dition, so this Instrument is simply pointed at the star whose composition Is sought, and If any line is found that orresponds to a substance that we now about we assume that this sub stance Is found in the star examined Another interesting thing is the meth d pursued in determining the great distance of the stars. This is done y determining their parallax or angle made at the star between two rays from the star striking at two differ ent points in space. As the greatest distance that we can measure off in his way and still take the angle is the diameter of the earth's orbit, that distance is invariably used. it Is al most 2l00.000.000 miles, but that, as Is seen, is very small compared with the normous distance of the star. No--. the angle thus measured from Arc turs Is only two-hundredths of a sec ond! When It is remembered that there are G0 seconds in a minute. 00 minutes in a degree and 300 degrees n a circle, it is at once seen what a mall angle the parallax Is and how careful the astronomer has to be in his observations, Indeed. for a long time, before modern delicately meas uring instruments were Invented, no star's distance could be found. for there was seemingly no angle formed. nd thus the old scientists had to as mme the star to be at infinity.-Pitts burg Dispatch. Guess This Is So. 3rs. Benham-flow much did you pay the minister when we were mar ried Benham-I didn't pay him, but don't worry; no man ever had the heart to attach a nrians wages for that kind of a debt-New York Press. Beware so long as you live of judg Lug people by appearances.-La Fon Stubborn As Mules re liver atnd bowels sometimnes: seem to balk without cause. Then there's trouble--Loss of A ppetite -Indigrestion. Nervousness, Desnoondency, I leadache. ut. such troubles fly before Dr. King's New Life Pills, the world's best Stomn ach and Liver remedy. So ea.,.y. 'Sc. at all druggists. Silver Service. Can I get the silver service for the fire departmenty' Inquired a young man at the free library. The what?' asked the girl at the The siiver service for the tire tie partment-thie questicns they ask you when you take the siver service exam inatIons, you know."-Newark News. Knew What She Was Doing. Pastor-I was sorry S.-r your wife during the sermon this morning. de-: tor. She had such a dreadful fit o-f cughing that the eyes of theC whoX congregation were :ixed upon her. Doctor-Don't yo.: be und~uly alarmed. She was wearfug her new hat for the PUBLIC LOVE LETTERS. Curious Appeals Appear In Newspza pers of Southern Italy. The printed love ietterz in the ad vertisin:: cou rs 'f ;e;-s in Sout': er 1:iy_ ::!I the t.ust w.; wonder mingled with deep reupect ftr sentiment which r th Insertion. The foll'wing letter. tat: from the Pa:ermo Orn. contained 17 words. which at the adverti-sed mt. of a ceut a word w-rould cost $1.74. I the italian saying. *A lira is a d*llar. is true, this would eqrla! ' hill c SS.70. which would require a prettj devoted American lover to-pay: "Dearest Little One-What have done to thee? W1:y this silence afte: thy promise? I expcrie'nce from It grief so violent that it renders mi helpless. "Thou art good. my Santuzza. a: good as dear; thou knowest how thi makes me surer. Why dost thou d< It? Thou knowest how I love thee that thou art my religion. Hlave offended thee? "I seek intense occupation to keel me calm. but a thousand thought gnaw my soul. Perhaps while yol amuse yourself you do iot know hon% our lce agitates e. Oh. dear Ma donna :ine. darlin;. darting. ni blessed joy. do not forget me; thou arl my life. all there Is for mne. my god Santuzza. "I could not lon-,er live without thee Forgive rme if I have offended thee It any way. blessed little bird. Here n! is as if thou wert to arrive at any moment. I seek to create for mysel this most beautiful allusicai. eve: spealdng to thee. vainly expectin;: news from thee with every post. witt a violently beating heart. "Do not believe me bad; I love tht so much: I kiss thy dear lips. thy most entrancing little countenance. al infinite pa-ssion and tendemess. I an insane to hear once more tb- dear enchanting voice." There were eleven letters of thi' kind In the same issue of the Ora. about an average number for a Pa lermo paper. Such letters are found In all Italian papers. but they gron shorter and shorter as one travel5 north until in Milan one line in the "agony column" suffices to express the lover's anguish. A style which seems theatrical to at American seems perfectly natural tc an Italian. le will write exactly thiE sort of love letter in private. Some of the published letters of Napoleon te Josephine in their early married life are in the same strain.-St. Paul Pi oneer Press. HE TOOK THE CAKE. A Story of William Black. the Novel ist. and Mary Anderson. One time when Mary Anderson wa! playing in "The Winter's Tale." it Dublin. Willia.m Black, the novelist who was very intimate with Miss An derson and her family. insisted upo assuming the part of one of the supers who was dressed as a very old ma with a venerable beard and locks thal fell upon his shoulders. When Blacl went upon the stage in this disguls he walked about among his fellov supers wIth unceasing restlessnes: and, judging by the wild motions of hi arms, seemed to be addressing to eacd in turn an Impassioned harangue. Thb audience began to wonder who th< new actor was and what on earth h< was doing In a play in which neithel Shakespeare nor the stage managers ever intended him to appear. Presently came the time when It was the busIness of Perdita to distrib ute flowers among the peasants. amon; whout Black had his place. MIls An derson. carrying on the practical jokes of the family cIrcle, had prepared surprise for this moment, and. L:avinl distributed tiowers among the less fa vored supers. she handed to Blacki large cake crowned with a wreath o: laurel. saying as she did so. "You tak4 it," in allusIon~ to his triumphs in th4 contest of wits at the supper table. To her consternation. Black showec that he was -quite prepared to carr3 out the jest. f.,r, taking the cake fron the bands of Perdita, he Immediatel: distributed It In substantial portions t< his hungry fellow suppers. who, find ing it to be of excellent quality, be gn to munch It greedily under the eyes of the house.-Exchanlge. Elephants' Love For Finery. Strange as It may seem, the elephani Is passionately fond of finery and de lights to see himself decked out wit] gorgeous tra~ings. The native princes of India are very particular In choos g their state elephants and will givt fabulous sums for an animal that er actly meets the somewhat fancifu ~standrd they have erected. For thesi they have made cloths of silk so heavi y embroIdered with gold that two mer are hardly able to lift them.-Pearson' Weekly. Force of Habit. "I understand that all star cast wa rather languid." "Yes; they played poorly for stars Even the life they put into the mol scene was accidental and came abou merely through each of them tryin; to yrab the center of the stage."-Phil adephia BulletIn. Troublo Makers. "What men think."' r?.narkedl the knowing woman. -causes fully one third of all the trouble in the world." "Yes" rejoined the mere man, "an< what women say causes the other two thrds."-Chicago News. Peor Consolation. Mrs. Benharm-You have torn m: train! lenham-That's all right. You: train Is long e::ough to be in Cwo sec tons.-Judge. Saved A Soldier's irfe. aing deathi from shot an. *deli t he ivi war was miore~ agreeab'.e a. .1 A. Stone of Remap. Tex.. than faemi i from what doctors said was co:a.mI ton. "i contracted a .tubborn cold" hm writes. "':hat developed a congh, tha stuck to mae in spite of all remedies fo ears. My weight ran down to 13 pounds. Then I began to use Dr:. Niat.. New Discovery, which comnpietely care mW. l now weih l'N pounds." lu o~rrhage. Iloarseness, Croup. Wh~oopi'a Cough and~ Lung trouble. it's supremr k~c. and $1.o0. Trial bottle free. (;ua: anteed by all druggist. Ia Honor of ivnrerva. of citizens n his ;inam.-utirr d marched inI I.ro~es'-i't. TM a.' .e went :lrst, then the youn~g ma.':. the Ithe children. tihe younm wvomenm t i inatrons and the pe ople of time >Wt orders. The most prominent object I the parade was rs ship p--opelled b hdden machinery and bearing at it m~sted the sacred banae-- of th godess. BAGGING A BIG TIGER The Jungle Monarch Was Trap ped Lolling In His Bath. A FEAT OF MARKSMANSHIP. Only the Brute's Head Showed Above the Water, and the Well Placed Bul let, Fired From an Elephant, Entered the Nostril and Broke His Neck. An interesting account of a tiger hunt is given by one who had a wide experience In hunting this most dan gerous of beasts. Mounted upon ele phants, the writer and his compani"ns bad been beating the jungle without making a find until, as they were about to give up the search. a sudden disturbance a:mong the clephants aUp peared to betoken a tiger near at band. Giving directions to the others as to the order of marching their ele phants. the writer ordered his ma hout to turn into the thick feathered fo'liage to the left in search of a pool of water which he remembered to be there. There was a slight descent to .a long but narrow hollow about fifty or sixty yards wide. This was filled with clear water for an unknown length. I was just about to make a remark I when, instead of speaking. I gently grasped the maiaout by the head as I leaned over the howdah and by this signal stopped the elephant. There was a remarkable sight. About 120 yards distant on my right the head and neck of a large tiger. clean and beautifu!. reposed above the surface of the water. while the body was cooling. concealed from view. Here was our friend enjoying his quiet bath. while we had been pound ing away up and down the jungles which he had left. "Fire -t him." whispered the ma hout. *"-r you wil! lose him! [He will see us and be off." "HFold your tongue!" I answered. "le can't see us. for the sun is at our back and is shining in his eyes. See how green they are." At this moment the tiger quietly rose from his bath and sat up on end like a dog. I n.2er saw such a sight. His bead was l.eautiful. and the eyes shone like two green electric lights as the sun's rays refected from them. but his huge body was dripping with muddy water. as he bad been reclin ing upon the n!Ilurial bottom. For quite a minute the tiger sat up in the same position. At last. as if satisfied that he was in safety and se cluslen. he once more lay down with only the head and reck exposed above the surface. "Back the elephant gently, but do not turn around." I whispered. Im mediately the elephant backed through the feathery tamarisk without the slightest sound. and we found our selves outside the jungle. We could bre;the freey. "Go on. now. quite gently till I press your head, then turn to the right. de scending through the tamarisk till I again touch your turban." I counted the elephant's paces as she moved softly parallel with the jungle until I felt sure of my distance. .A slight pressure upon the mahout's head and the elephant turned to the right. The waving plumes of the dark green tamarisk divided as we gently moved forward, and in another mo ment we stopped. There was the tiger in the same position, exactly facing me. but now about seventy-five paces distant. "K~eep the elephant quite steady," I whispered, and, sitting down upon the howdah seat, I took a rest with the rfl~e upon the front batr of the gun rack. A piece of tamarisk kept wav Ing~ in the wind just in front of the ri:!e beyond my reach. The mahont leaned forward and gently bent it down. Now all was clear. The tiger's eyes were like green glass. The ele phant for a moment stood like stone. I touched the trigger. There was no response to the loud re port of six drains of powder from the "ive-seven-seven" rifle, no splash In te unbroken surface. of the water. The tiger's head was still there, but in a different attitude, one-hair' below the surface arnd only one cheek and ene large eye still glittering like an cemerald above. Upon examination It proyed that -there was no hole whatever in that Itiger, the bullet having entered the nostril, broken the neck arnd run along the body. The animal consequently had never moved. This tiger when laid out straight, but without being pulled to increase Its length, measured exactly nine feet and eight inches from nose to tail. Youth's Companion. His Last Request. Charles Dickens used to relate an anecdote of the last moments of Faun tieroy. the great banker, banged fur forery in IS2-4. Ilis elegant dinners -jhad always been followed by some re arkable and matchless curacao, the source of which he kept a deep secret. Three of his boon companions had an IntervIew with him in the condemned1 Icell the dlay before his execution. They were about to retit-- aen the most impressive of the ter' 2 stepped back and said: "'Fauntlero;'. you stand on the verge of the grave. Rlemember the text. my dear man, that 'we brought nothing into this world. and it is certain we can take nothing out.' tell me now, as a friend, where you ot that curacaoy' Lfe is fruitful in the ratio in which it is Laid out in noble action or patient p-rever ace. -Liddon. (ood. h.ealth is impossible when there i any derangement of the digestive or Hiz, Blunder. "F,::. did you enjoy the miusiC!c'l .-Oh. I applauded at the wrong time, as usual: thought the orchestra tun -ing up was a classical number."-IKan ss City Journ-al. Easily Timed Read-Have you! ever timed your auo'oble? Greerne- Oh. yes' It stood perfectiy stI;; for forty-etght attes on the rcad toda~y. CASTOR I For Infants and Children. SThe fkind You Have Always Bought Bears the gatun-e of Honest? With your land when for the sake of savina a few dollars you use a rertilizer whose only recommendation is its analysis. It requires no spe cial knowledge to mix mate rials to analyses. The value of a fertilizer lies in the ma terials used, so as not to over feed the plant at .one time and starve at another. This is why Royster brands are so popular. Every in gredient has its particular work to do. Twenty-five years experience in making ooods for Southern crops has enabled us to know what is required. See that trade mark is on every bag TRADE MARK EGISTERED: F. S. Royster Guano Co. NORFOLK, VA. THE MANNING HARDWARE CO. - ESTABLISHED IN 1897. Hardware, Tinware, V d Glassware. Crockeryware. Enamelware, Woodenware, 2 Potware. Stoves. Ranges. Oils, U 2 Heaters. Wire Fencing, 4 Paints, P Sporting Goods, Baint . Pocket Knives, rushes, Razors, Shears g Shells.aisSheIrn ~Etc. .Fr mlmns 311Supplies, Buggy and agon Slaterial. Tobacco Barn FlIues. ITHE MEANNING H ARDWARE CO. En The Yearli Sjust closed. 1909. we have much to be thankful for, in common with all our citizens. good trade conditions anid a ~ eneral prosperity. Our trade has about doubled itself a Sand we hope this year to see the march of progress con- a Stinued for ourselves as well as our friends and patrotns a Severywhere. Friends. we as for a continuance of your Ssupport and patronage. promisimg on our part honest, Sfair anrd square dealings with all. Our aim is to offer a Syou the best goods at lowest prices. Our stock of SGeneral llardware g: Swill be more complete than ever before. New goods are 3 Sconstantly arriving. A full Line of Stoves, Ranges and a SHeaters. ~Farmers will find a complete assortment of a SFarming Imnplements and Tools to select from. Our a "_ All-In.One" Plow, entirely new, will fill a long felt Swant. Another carload of the famous Pittsburg Fence Sfor both garden and field fencing has just arrived. Agent for all "K'eeni Kutter" goods-none. better. Headquarters for Guuns and Sporting Goods. We ask the ladies to in s pect our line of Enamneiware. Raed's Enamelware made especially for us- evr piece guaranteed. A full line of Crockery. G;lassware. Lamps. Burners a nd Ch!imnaeys, Paints. Olis. Varnishes, and all building Yours for business. BRING YOUR ~JOB WORKE TO THE TIMES OFFICE.